• curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        13 days ago

        Anecdotally… About 75% of the right that I know/met.

        The other 25% is a mix of racism, greed, and conspiracy theory.

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          Every time they’ll be complaining about the price hikes under Trump, just remind them of why they voted for Trump. This is the best course of action against “collective amnesia” as we call it in Hungary.

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            Oh alongside the loss of benefits they rely on (which I told them about), the pandemic potential with the worst Kennedy, even their friends which are of varying ethnicities and going to be targeted, the list is… Long.

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            11 days ago

            Which is why every time something bad or good happens, I’ll be posting #ThankRepublicans over and over. People love to bitch, so put it squarely with them.

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            Things will have to be really really bad for MAGA to notice and then actually acknowledge issues. Even then they might use excuses and blame others.

            COVID handling was objectively terrible, with plenty of examples of mismanagement, but they’ve basically completely forgotten about it and the ‘mismanagement’ they might point to are the availability of vaccines, or the ability of workplaces to make people wear masks.

            They can also completely ignore the blatant corruption with employing close family members as advisors and diplomats, while on the other side, even leaning on a family name to get a job was too much. Don’t forget that they’ve also come to the conclusion than Jan 6 wasn’t bad.

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          13 days ago

          Solid distinction.

          Religion primed the rubes, and a new godhead told them he is their salvation.

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            12 days ago

            Religion didn’t prime them. Religion merely exploits the same human psychological weaknesses. This is why they go hand in hand.

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      13 days ago

      So sad that dumbasses who think the President controls grocery store prices and gas prices have done this to us all.

      I voted for Harris and my state went red for Trump as usual. Just sad and disgusted at it all today.

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        How do you expect people to think any differently when there is nobody combatting that narrative at the national level? That is something the Democrats could have been hammering on.

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          Uh, just basic knowledge of how the President’s job works? Stuff we learn in grade school. Everyone should know this, but people are idiots.

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            In the context of this chain, it should be noted most immigrants don’t go through US grade schools.

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              Immigrants should do their civic duty as members of the society they wish to join, by learning basic civics.

              But overall, this election is the fault of religious dumbasses who are brainwashed by dumbass preachers illegally promoting their politics based on religious fantasies about demons and armageddon.

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            Right, which is why you educate them and make the case for them to vote for you, or else the other side will spread their disinformation without any competing narrative. That’s kind of the entire point of a presidential campaign. Just calling people idiots isn’t going to make them not be idiots.

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      Grocery stores are making record profits. Do they really think they are going to voluntarily cut prices? They know there will be no oversight under trump (not that Biden did anything about price gouging). Prices are going to go up even higher.

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      I don’t expect everybody to be politically aware, but there’s “not politically aware” and then there’s whatever that is.

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      Instead of mocking people like this, us on the left really need to understand them and how to appeal to them better than Trump. Dude is a billionaire and managed to convince working people he’s on their side. He’s winning the populism game because no one else is even playing it. Time to beat him at his own game

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        How do you get the Democrats to run somebody like Sanders when they don’t even have a primary? The DNC boned the entire country. Again.

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          In related news:

          In June 2016, a class action lawsuit was filed against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz for violating the DNC Charter by rigging the Democratic presidential primaries for Hillary Clinton against Bernie Sanders. Even former Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid admitted in July 2016, “I knew—everybody knew—that this was not a fair deal.”

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        I don’t pretend to know how to accomplish this. I may be completely wrong here, but two things that have to go:

        • Religious thought (“faithbrain” or the Peter Pan-esque belief that things are true because you believe they are true, despite a lack of evidentiary or even argumentative support, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary)
        • Social media bubbles (billionaires controlling the content people see, creating bubbles of “information” that skew the public in their favor)

        There’s almost certainly more to do as well, but those things stand out to me. Also, it seems hard to believe that we could make any progress on these fronts given the current situation.

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          This won’t change. Democrats have to take a lesson in human behaviour. Republican tactics work. Embrace them. Exploit them.

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            I keep waiting for the Left to fight dirty, but… We go high, they go low, and low is what gets elected

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          It matters to MAGA Republicans. Your friend is a legal immigrant, he’s here to stay and we 100% welcome him.

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            Ah, yes, just like the completely legal Haitian immigrants.

            Clearly, a well supported position from the republican party. Totally not the exact opposite of what came out of the pres elect and VP elect.

            Reminded a bit of a certain anchorman gif right about now…

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              Some Haitians are legal, and some are “legal” due to this sus app the new administration will be looking into. I think some from that app will stay and some will have to leave, but they’ll clear it up.

              Do you mean the eating cats and dogs thing? I’m glad that got cleared up. :)